Former Kern County Supervisor and state senator Michael Rubio has landed on Capitol Weekly’s Top 100 list, an annual look at Californians who have an outsized influence on state politics or policy but do not hold office.
Congressman David Valadao is criticizing a civil rights organization that sent a group of protesters to his Hanford home Wednesday morning with his wife and three children inside. Valadao wasn't home at the time.
Kern County voters now have a clear picture of who they can pick to represent them on a range of local government boards on Nov. 6.
Ward 1 City Councilman Willie Rivera will have some company on the November ballot, as will at least one of his council colleagues.
Dolores Huerta has endorsed Delano Mayor Grace Vallejo in her bid to become the Kern County Supervisor for the 4th District, Vallejo announced Thursday.
Congressman Kevin McCarthy leads a double life.
Two members of the Bakersfield City Council have made it official in the past week: They're running for reelection.
Frustration abounded locally after Wednesday's failure of another immigration bill in the U.S. House of Representatives — but so, too, did hopeful calls for substitute legislation addressing the needs of Kern individuals and businesses.
The attached PDFs appeared in Wednesday's Californian; the election results listed were as of 10 p.m. Tuesday. See Thursday's Californian for an updated listing of state and local races.
Supervising Deputy District Attorney Cynthia Zimmer took an early lead Tuesday in the race to become Kern County top prosecutor — and she held that lead past midnight.
Flanked by top leaders from the Latino community, Delano Mayor Grace Vallejo emphasized the importance of unity among supporters before formally announcing she would challenge David Couch for Kern County’s newly drawn District Four supervisor area.
Republican state Sen. Andy Vidak has held the Latino-heavy Democratic 14th District since he won it in a special election in 2013.
It’s rare when somebody challenges a sitting judge for re-election, but Deputy District Attorney Cole McKnight — a prosecutor with a track record of putting away violent gang members — said it’s imperative to ensure Kern County has a shot at electing a judge with his background in gang crimes.
Ralph Anthony, a retired pastor and former school board member who led a scrappy, shoestring campaign and was outspent by his opponents by thousands was the apparent winner of the Bakersfield City School District’s Area Three trustee race Tuesday night.
For the second election cycle in a row, Assemblyman Vince Fong, R-Bakersfield, will face an inexperienced Democratic candidate with no political background in a GOP stronghold.
If off-year elections are eminently ignorable, what are off-year election primaries? An excuse to get out of the office for an hour, right?
A few people running for re-election this year won't face any competition in the June 5 California primary.
The Kern County Board of Supervisors could walk out of a closed session meeting Wednesday with a newly drawn map that will give greater representation to Latino communities and reshape the region’s political landscape — even if it has to be forced upon them.
California’s Central Valley could pick the state’s next governor, political columnist Dan Walters told a group of Bakersfield business leaders Thursday, laying out some election year predictions.
WASHINGTON — Republicans pushed a nearly $1.5 trillion tax bill through the Senate early Saturday after a burst of eleventh-hour horse trading, as a party starved all year for a major legislative triumph took a giant step toward giving President Donald Trump one of his top priorities by Christmas.
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Bakersfield, traveled with President Donald Trump on Air Force One Wednesday to Las Vegas to meet with victims of Sunday night's mass shooting, including ones from Kern County, as well as law enforcement and first-responders.
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence will visit Bakersfield next week, according to KGET Channel 17 News.
The Cynthia Zimmer for District Attorney Committee will hold a fundraiser for Zimmer's bid to become Kern County's top prosecutor Oct. 12.
Congressman David Valadao, R-Hanford, is one of seven California Republicans being targeted by state and federal Democratic groups with grassroots organizing and media buys.
Election Day on Tuesday was stuffed with shenanigans as supporters of Ward 5 candidates Ryan Nance and Bruce Freeman squabbled over signs, stalking and scripts.
The businessman who spearheaded the development of much of southwest Bakersfield will now represent it on the City Council.
A bill by Assemblyman Rudy Salas, D-Bakersfield, to direct more resources to fighting valley fever, passed the Assembly Committee on Health Tuesday, his office said Wednesday.
Larry Koman, a Bakersfield businessman who had planned to run for the open Ward 5 seat on the Bakersfield City Council, announced Wednesday he would end his campaign.
The race for the Ward 5 seat on the Bakersfield City Council could get very crowded, very fast.
Congressman David Valadao announced Tuesday he's co-sponsoring legislation that would protect undocumented people who were brought to the United States as children if the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program is discontinued under the new presidential administration.
Ryan Nance, late Sunday, announced his intention to run on June 6 for the Ward 5 council seat left open by the death of Councilman Jeff Tkac earlier this month.
When volunteers fanned out across Bakersfield’s Ward 5 in recent weeks asking residents to support a special election to fill the seat left vacant by the tragic death of Bakersfield City Councilman Jeff Tkac, they noticed something interesting.
Former Bakersfield Assemblywoman Shannon Grove is officially kicking off her state Senate campaign with an event at the Kern County Fairgrounds Thursday night.
Some retirement.
Jeff Tkac’s seat on the Bakersfield City Council should be filled in a special election, a majority of his fellow council members said this week.
Kern County government hasn’t had a lot of joy-filled years since the Great Recession hit, but 2016 was one of the worst.
Politics in 2016 was a wild affair in Kern County, filled with upsets, nasty television advertisements, vicious Facebook posts and tense waits as final ballot counts came in.
Two men who will represent Kern County in the state Assembly — one new, one an incumbent — were sworn into office Monday.
Kern County elections officials released the results from 17,447 freshly counted ballots Monday afternoon, solidifying the results of some races but leaving others up in the air.
Paulette Wyant doesn't own a dart gun and doesn't plan to buy one. The Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton bobblehead dolls she won in The Californian's Pick the Winners contest this month will share a shelf of honor in her home, despite the fact her candidate lost.
Karen Goh has won the race for mayor of Bakersfield, it was clear Tuesday, but she wasn't ready to declare it so.
Will the third win be a charm for Congressman David Valadao?
Q: I had a question about the ballots that aren't counted because of signature recognition issues.
The dust is still settling and Californians are trying to figure out how this sometimes crazy 2016 election will affect them. This is especially true regarding the passage of Proposition 64, which legalizes the recreational use of marijuana.
Despite President-elect Donald Trump’s promise to repeal the Affordable Care Act, state officials and advocates say your health plan is safe for now.
As a state bluer than Lake Tahoe in sunlight, California has adopted a slew of progressive policies that drive Donald Trump nuts. They combat climate change, protect undocumented immigrants, evangelize for Obamacare and more.
Two days after the 2016 presidential election, Bakersfield residents still have mixed opinions about the new president-elect. On Thursday, The Californian headed to a busy shopping center to talk to readers about their opinions and what they are hoping for in the future.
More than 76,000 uncounted ballots remained to be checked, approved and tallied in Kern County Wednesday.
Four-term Bakersfield City Councilman Harold Hanson, who initially said he wouldn’t seek a fifth term, but later changed his mind, may now be wondering whether he should have stuck with his original plan.
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